This is the Plan of Day meeting, a ritual this particular group — with accents proving them to be mostly hailing from construction and trade firms out of the Midwest — has been practicing six days every week since Kevin Durant, Joe Lacob, Peter Guber, Rick Welts, the late former San Francisco Mayor...

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